Cabrillo College offers a comprehensive engineering program that prepares students for transfer with full junior standing to four-year engineering colleges/universities in California and across the United States.

Presently, California universities that grant BS degrees in engineering count on community colleges to provide approximately 50% of their junior class.

New Students to the Engineering Program - What courses should you take?

First Semester:

If you are interested in civil, structural, architectural, or environmental engineering:ENGR 1A (as long as you have already successfully completed high school trigonometry or Math 3 or Math 4)CHEM 1A (or Chem 3 & 3L if you have not taken high school chemistry or you received a C or below)

If you are interested in mechanical, manufacturing, or aerospace engineering: ENGR 12CHEM 1A (or Chem 3 & 3L if you have not taken high school chemistry or you received a C or below)

If you are interested in electrical, computer, or software engineering: CS 11 (or CS 1 & 1L if you do not have the CS 11 prerquisite of Math 152)

If you are interested in all other fields of engineering: CHEM 1A (or Chem 3 & 3L if you have not taken high school chemistry or you received a C or below)

About Engineering Program

Cabrillo College's engineering program began in 1960, the second year of the college's operation. Cabrillo's engineering program provides the complete first two years of coursework which prepares you to transfer with full junior standing to all four-year engineering college/universities in California and across the United States.

ENGINEERING MAJORS:

Engineering is one of the top ten majors at Cabrillo with more than 300 students majoring in engineering. Some popular engineering majors:

Biomedical, Mechanical, and Aerospace

Electrical, Computer, and Software

Civil, Environmental, Structural, & Architectural

Chemical, Biological, and Agriculture

Materials and Nanotechnology

Industrial and Manufacturing

Nuclear and Petroleum

BENEFITS of CABRILLO's ENGINEERING PROGRAM:

Cabrillo’s engineering program offers you:

small class size

cost-effective education

accessible faculty who are committed to your academic success

engaged community of students

faculty with varied disciplines and interest

modern classroom and laboratory facilities

hands-on fun engineering curriculum

transferable courses to all UC, CSU & private universities

strong foundation for you to be successful in your junior and senior years

STEM Center: place to study collaboratively with free tutoring, workshops, and computers

more than $100,000 in scholarship awarded each year

mentors and connection to engineering alums

engineering student clubs

The quality of education, the individualized attention, the convenience, and the cost are the advantages of coming to Cabrillo. History has proven that Cabrillo students do as well as, and frequently better than, those students who started as freshman at the four-year schools.

STUDENTS:

All the diversity of the student population is present in the engineering student body and active in many of the engineering student clubs:

Engineering Society

Robotics Club

Women in Science & Engineering (WISE)

Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)

Engineering Abroad Club

K-12 Outreach Club

Latinos United at Cabrillo in Engineering & Science (LUCES)

Link to Active clubs

ALUMNI:

Cabrillo has connections to many engineers throughout Santa Cruz County and beyond through our 1000+ alumni. Many make a major impact on Santa Cruz county as they have returned to occupy a wide range of positions in the public and private sectors of business and professional life in our area. Many have assisted in providing part-time and summer jobs for current engineering students. Alumni are employed in professional practice throughout the state, nation and even abroad. Former students are a major source of gifts to the engineering scholarship fund and have endowed other awards.

Cabrillo's engineering coursework follows a pattern established by the California Engineering Liaison Council (ELC). Cabrillo engineering has been a major player in this group for more than 50 years.